2026-2027 CTE Teacher - Health Sciences at Capital School District in Dover, DE

Job description

2026-2027 Middle School Career & Technical Education Teacher – Health Sciences REPORTS TO: Building Principal and/or Designee TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: 10-month position (Temporary if hired after contractual start date for teachers) SALARY: Current Teacher Salary Schedule ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES CTE AND HEALTH SCIENCES INSTRUCTION: Plan and deliver standards-aligned instruction for Exploring Health Sciences I and Exploring Health Sciences II. Implement the curriculum and expectations associated with Delaware Career and Technical Education and applicable Delaware CTE career exploration standards. Provide hands-on, inquiry-based, problem-based, and project-based learning experiences related to health sciences and healthcare careers. Introduce students to careers across the health sciences, including nursing, allied health, public and community health, emergency medical services, behavioral health, rehabilitation, diagnostic services, therapeutic services, biotechnology, and other healthcare occupations. Help students examine career responsibilities, education and training requirements, industry credentials, postsecondary opportunities, workplace environments, employment outlook, and career advancement opportunities. Connect middle school career exploration to CTE Programs of Study available at Dover High School and throughout Delaware. Integrate developmentally appropriate concepts related to anatomy and physiology, wellness, public health, medical terminology, healthcare systems, patient care, safety, professionalism, and ethics. Incorporate authentic healthcare scenarios, simulations, demonstrations, projects, and performance tasks. Maintain a safe, organized, engaging, and academically rigorous classroom environment. Explicitly teach and reinforce appropriate laboratory, equipment, sanitation, and classroom safety procedures. Maintain instructional materials, supplies, equipment, inventories, and other resources necessary for program implementation. CAREER EXPLORATION AND PATHWAY DEVELOPMENT The teacher will support students in: Identifying personal interests, strengths, skills, and potential career goals. Exploring the breadth of occupations within the Health Science career cluster. Comparing education, credentialing, training, and employment requirements across healthcare careers. Understanding the relationship among middle school coursework, high school CTE Programs of Study, dual enrollment, industry-recognized credentials, postsecondary education, work-based learning, and employment. Developing foundational career-readiness and employability skills. Building awareness of Delaware employers, healthcare providers, colleges, universities, training organizations, and career opportunities. Understanding workplace professionalism, communication, confidentiality, ethical decision-making, responsibility, collaboration, and safety. CONTENT-AREA LITERACY The teacher will incorporate literacy as an essential component of CTE and health sciences instruction and will: Provide students with regular opportunities to read and engage with appropriately complex informational, technical, scientific, and career-related texts. Explicitly teach academic, technical, and health sciences vocabulary. Support students in determining meaning, gathering evidence, analyzing information, and communicating understanding from technical and informational texts. Provide structured opportunities for students to engage in academic discussion, collaborative problem solving, and evidence-based discourse. Incorporate writing throughout the course, including explanatory writing, reflection, technical writing, evidence-based responses, career research, and project documentation. Use strategies that build student background knowledge, fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, and disciplinary literacy. Reinforce Capital School District's expectations for literacy across all content areas and contribute to the district's secondary literacy initiatives. Collabor